Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
2 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
3 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
4 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
5 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
6 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
7 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |
8 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
9 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
10 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
11 | NIGEL MANSELL was taken to the circuit medical centre at Interlagos suffering from shock and minor injuries after tangling with his old rival , Ayrton Senna , and crashing heavily in the last minute of an incident-filled final qualifying session for today 's Brazilian Grand Prix . |
12 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
13 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
14 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
15 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
16 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
17 | The machinery was of mainly wooden construction and dated largely from the 18th century . |
18 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
19 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
20 | He had the good lecturer 's habit of referring back to the previous lecture , and looking forward to the next , so that the course flowed smoothly on . |
21 | I believe that the whole country thinks that with the uncertainties in the world — in the middle east and elsewhere , as well as in the Soviet Union — and looking ahead to the next 10 years , it is essential that we maintain our minimum credible nuclear deterrent . |
22 | The stone rings and Avenues of Avebury had gone already , broken , burnt and buried early in the 18th century ( almost all those that now stand at Avebury were dug out of their pits and re-erected in the 1920s ad 1930s ) . |
23 | Make a note of these in your garden diary , and watch carefully for the first sign of bud swelling , for they will need pruning first . |
24 | Those who attended valued the experience that the two days gave them , and look forward to the next such occasion . |
25 | America wants the Bank to change its ways , and lend less to the third world 's governments and more to its private businesses . |
26 | In buildings of more than two storeys , wait for the fire brigade , and jump only as a last resort . |
27 | Jezrael let go and dodged weakly beneath the first one . |
28 | He has won titles at two different clubs — Everton and Arsenal — and to do so at a third would be unique . |
29 | The chief monument in the country is the Cathedral of Pécs ( Fünfkirchen ) , rebuilt about 1150 and restored mainly in the nineteenth century . |
30 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |